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The UFC has a new women’s bantamweight on its roster, and she’ll make her promotional debut in April.
Cindy Dandois (8-2, 0-0 UFC) has signed with the promotion and will fight former title challenger Alexis Davis (17-7 MMA, 4-2 UFC) at UFC Fight Night 108. UFC officials announced the new booking today.
UFC Fight Night 108 takes place April 22 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. The card airs on FS1 following early prelims on UFC Fight Pass. In the main event, featherweight Cub Swanson takes on Conor McGregor teammate and training partner Artem Lobov.

Another of New York’s native sons is headed for a fight in his home state this spring.
New Yorker Gregor Gillespie (8-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) is set to take on Andrew Holbrook (12-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) in a lightweight fight at UFC 210. UFC officials announced the new booking today.
UFC 210 takes place April 8 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, N.Y. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass, though the bout order hasn’t been finalized.

The UFC is heading to Singapore for the first time since 2014.
The organization today announced an event, which is expected to be UFC Fight Night 110, is slated for June 17 at the 12,000-seat Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore.

UFC strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk will attempt her fifth consecutive title defense at UFC 211 when she puts her belt up for grabs, this time against Jessica Andrade.
Jedrzejczyk (13-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) announced the title bout with Andrade (16-5 MMA, 7-3 UFC) today on the FOXSports.com PROcast app (via Twitter):
It's on! #UFC champion @joannamma is returning to Dallas to defend her title for a 5th time! What do you think of her opponent for #UFC211?

In 2015 a class-action, anti-trust lawsuit was filed against the UFC. It is ongoing, and argues that the league crippled the market, and created an environment where fighters were unable to fight anywhere else.
The suit accuses the UFC of running “an illegal scheme to eliminate competition from would-be rival MMA Promoters by systematically preventing them from gaining access to resources critical to successful MMA Promotions, including by imposing extreme restrictions on UFC Fighters’ ability to fight for would-be rivals during and after their tenure with the UFC.”

Ian McCall said on Joe Rogan’s podcast over the weekend that he received an IV prior to UFC 208. The disclosure has drawn questions — even from Rogan himself — since the use of an IV is a prohibited method at all times in the UFC’s anti-doping program, run by USADA.

Al Iaquinta was in Australia a little more than a week ago when the news was announced by the UFC that he’d be returning to fight against Diego Sanchez.
Iaquinta told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that he was doing a Q&A session with fans when the announcement flashed across a nearby TV screen.

Ian McCall is probably the most popular fighter on the UG, and absolutely the most cursed. At UFC 208 McCall was forced off the card at the last moment after suffering gastrointestinal distress. It was his fifth fight in a row to be canceled, and his eight in the past three years.
‘Uncle Creepy’ detailed what happened during a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience.

A former Titan FC champion is heading to the UFC, and he’ll get to make his promotional debut in front of his home state fans.
According to a report from the Buffalo News, Desmond Green (19-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC) has signed with the UFC and will debut against Josh Emmett (11-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC) in a lightweight bout at UFC 210. UFC officials have not yet announced the booking.

Gadzhimurad Antigulov needs a new opponent for UFC 209.
Monday, Antigulov's slated light heavyweight opponent for March 4 in Las Vegas, Ed Herman, announced that he had been forced out of the contest due to injury. The native of Vancouver, Wash. didn't specify the nature of the injury.

HALIFAX – Derrick Lewis, Travis Browne, Paul Felder and Thiago “Marreta” Santos each earned $50,000 bonuses for their performances at Sunday’s UFC Fight Night 105 event.
Lewis and Brown earned the “Fight of the Night,” while Felder and Santos each won “Performance of the Night” honors.

Kyoji Horiguchi didn’t stay long in the open market, as the Japanese star has signed a new deal to return home and compete with Rizin Fighting Federation. Promoter Nobuyuki Sakakibara has announced the news on Monday, saying that the contract with the 26-year-old UFC contender has been finalized.

Another one bites the dust. The UFC has been purging their roster to a great degree over the last few days and weeks, and it looks like one of the top flyweights on the roster is on his way out of the organization as well.

Following an unsuccessful cut down to the land of 155 pounds, the one-time UFC title challenger will return to his home in the welterweight division to take on Canadian veteran Patrick Cote in a 170-pound contest on April 8 at UFC 210.

An unbeaten heavyweight will get a chance to make his UFC debut as a short-notice replacement.
Daniel Spitz will meet Mark Godbeer at UFC 209 on March 4 in Las Vegas, MMA Fighting has learned. He’ll replace Todd Duffee, who had to pull out of the bout Thursday for undisclosed reasons.

The UFC light heavyweight division is down another man after Nikita Krylov was released from his contract with the organization this month.
Krylov (21-5 MMA, 9-3 UFC), a nine-fight veteran of the promotion, was let go in the wake of his most recent fight, a first-round submission loss to Misha Cirkunov at UFC 206 in December.
A UFC official confirmed Krylov’s release to MMAjunkie. He was removed from the latest version of the UFC official rankings on the promotion’s website.

Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre retired in 2013, citing the need to rest. He later expanded that to include concerns about doping in the league, among other points.
On July 1, 2015, the UFC instituted what is arguably the toughest anti-doping program in the sports world. And it time negotiations for the return of GSP commenced but apparently broke down over apparel sponsorship. The UFC is wedded to Reebok, and GSP has a deal with UnderArmor. At one point things got so bad St-Pierre reported that he was a free agent, which the UFC firmly denied. By October, UFC president Dana White said the relationship between the two had never been better.
But there was no contract.
Now UFC President Dana White has told Lance Pugmire for the LA Times that it is official, and discussed potential opponents.
“He’s back. I’m excited,” said White. “We worked at it for a long time and finally got it done.”

In December it was announced that Cris Cyborg Justino had an anti-doping test flagged. She tested positive for spironolactone, which is prohibited, with a potential one-year suspension. However, Cyborg was by all indications legitimately taking it under the care of an MD, to recover from weight cutting.
Earlier this month her attorney reported that she was applying for a retroactive Therapeutic Use Exemption. Now USADA has announced that the TUE has been granted.

After suffering her third consecutive defeat, strawweight Valerie Letourneau’s days in the UFC are (at least for now) over. Letourneau announced the news to fans on her Instagram page.
Letourneau (8-6) debuted in the UFC in 2014, winning by split decision over Elizabeth Phillips at UFC 174 in a bantamweight bout. “Trouble” dropped down to strawweight, where wins over Jessica Rakoczy and Maryna Maroz netted her a title shot against Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 193 in November 2015. The Canadian lost to the reigning champion by unanimous decision.